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title: 'Shell Containers from Waste Paper: Put Out More Waste Paper, It Will Save More Shipping'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-shell-containers-from-waste-paper-1939/
description: Three cardboard shell containers strapped together sit above a blue panel of discarded books and papers. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Shell Containers from Waste Paper: Put Out More Waste Paper, It Will Save More Shipping

Three cardboard shell containers strapped together sit above a blue panel of discarded books and papers. The text gives a figure (two ounces a week from every adult, 100,000 tons a year) and links household paper to saved shipping; the picture ties paper to munitions.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Shell containers from waste paper
ONLY TWO OUNCES EACH WEEK FROM EVERY ADULT WOULD
PROVIDE 100,000 TONS PER YEAR. EVERY OUNCE COUNTS, SO
PUT OUT MORE WASTE PAPER
IT WILL SAVE MORE SHIPPING
[small print:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Fosh & Cross Ltd., London. 51-3519
```

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